What Justice Amy Coney Barrett Means for LGBTQ Americans

They’ve been telling us for years what their plans were… and they’re deeply unsettling.

Last June, I wrote an article for Medium outlining the agenda published by the GOP that laid marriage equality in their crosshairs. A key part of their platform from 2016- and doubled down upon for their 2020 platform- was to revisit the landmark Marriage Equality ruling, overturn it, and send it back to the individual states to vote on as a simple ballot issue. Their statement emphasized that marriage legalized for LGBTQ people was unconstitutional and compromised the integrity of the family unit which they define as a holy union between “One man and one woman.”

The hyperbole is all-too familiar. They invoke old tropes to demonize same-sex couples leveraging the whole “Won’t someone think of the children!” argument while asserting that true mental and emotional stability can only be achieved in a family comprised of a Mother and a Father.

Prior to the confirmation of hyper-conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett — who had, in her short career, overturned a ruling in Milwaukee concerning a pregnant teenage female inmate who had been viciously raped by a prison guard four times. During one of the attacks, she began to hemorrhage and went into premature labor. In the initial ruling, wherein the inmate sued the…